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Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

The federal government is mostly shut down. Default is looming. Is this the end? Looking at the headlines from this week, the answer is a resounding “No!” The tech industry continues marching on. Does this have to do with the tech industry’s inherent independence? Sure the internet got its start from the federal government, but now it’s now run mostly by independent organizations and private companies. This independence is seen throughout the tech industry. Enough editorializing though.

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

Every once in a while my full time job feels the need to remind me that I’m not doing what I love yet. That happened this week when I went back to my graveyard shift. I’ll be doing the same things I have been, but it will seem more mysterious because I’ll be doing them in the middle of the night. Everything seems a little more mysterious in the middle of the night.

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Westminster-based Cloudpath Networks providing BYOD Wi-Fi access to IT professionals at Interop New York [InnovatioNews]

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

When attempting to juggle all of my roles it’s important to remember that juggling is hard. You can only juggle for so long before your arms get tired and you get out of sync. Things will get dropped, but there’s a good chance you can pick them up before too many people notice. Just smile and pretend it’s part of the act. It’s better to be beautiful than perfect.

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

There is that one moment after you go through something that was hectic or traumatic or that just took up all your attention. It’s that moment where you stop and look around and realize the world is still moving and things are still changing. It’s comforting and disconcerting at the same time.

We have survived the flooding, now it’s time to help with the recovery. If you want to help out, go to www.helpcoloradonow.org.

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

Last week I got to go to the CTA APEX Conference in Denver. It was an amazing experience that every CS and CIS student should have and students should do it BEFORE graduating. I’ll write about that more in a separate blog post later this week.

My hopes and thoughts go to everyone affected by the massive flooding in my state. If you want to help out, go to www.helpcoloradonow.org.

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Congrats to the APEX award winners including Cloud Elements, Connect First, iTriage, and the Colorado Office of Information Technology [CTA]

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

Is there a major technology company that is not releasing a new product in the next few months? All these new things are going to be awesome next year after they find a fix the bugs.

I am excited to be going to my first Colorado Technology Association Apex Conference this Wednesday. I’m really looking forward to meeting some of the cool people I’ve learned about while doing these CTW posts.

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The Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology (RMCIT for short) signs its first tenant [InnovatioNews]

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning! Unless Monday is a holiday, then it will be posted on Tuesday, but I’m not going to say that every week because that would be a little strange.

I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. Between last July’s news of Amazon allowing HTML5 apps and this week’s news of allowing in-app purchases of real goods, developing for the Amazon App Store is looking more and more appealing.

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

It is impossible to pay attention to technology news in Colorado without hearing about all the different, interesting and exciting startup companies here. So much so that I have been invited to contribute a weekly technology post to the StartupDenver website! I’m pretty excited. This opportunity made me question whether I really knew what a startup company is, so I did what any blogger with a thirst for knowledge would do, I asked myself “What is a Startup?“. In the post, I reference an essay by Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham (“Startup = Growth”, 2012) . It is a great read for anyone who wants to understand startups.

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Boulder cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider, Ajubeo secures new investment to support their growth [InnovatioNews]

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I will be at the CTA Member Meetup tomorrow night at Swiftpage. It would be pretty cool to see you there. If you know of any other good news stories or sources about tech in Colorado, please let me know! Also if you attend any of the events listed, I would love to hear from you!

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

Anyone who has written a blog as a hobby knows how easy it is to promise ourselves big things, then fail to deliver. Most of the time no one else knows about these disappointments except the authors themselves, but they’re still there. CTW #10 is a milestone for me. 10 weekly posts equals over 2 months of consistency! Woohoo! I’m going to pat myself on the back a little.

September is shaping up to be lots of fun. Locally we have the Colorado Technology Association’s annual APEX Conference followed closely by Denver Startup Week. Nationally, we have Apple unveiling a new iPhone and Samsung more than likely giving us a view of the first big name smart watch with the Galaxy Gear.

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Denver, Boulder, Ft. Collins-Louisville, and Colorado Springs make up 4 of the top 10 Metro Areas for High-Tech Startup Density [InnovatioNews]

Colorado’s tech job growth is the 8th largest in the country. New Jersey is #1, but it’s… you know… New Jersey [TechKnowBytes]

Colorado on pace to set record for exports thanks to electronic products, machinery, chemicals and frozen beef. Also: Thank you Canada! [CTA]

The schedule for the biggest Denver Startup Week EVER is out. The 2nd Denver Startup Week will be September 16-21 [DBJ]

Englewood-based PlayerLync, app provider for the Denver Broncos, receives a $10.5M vote of confidence from local billionaire Philip Anschutz [DBJ]

Colorado Tech Weekly brings you the top 10 information technology stories of the past week and the best upcoming local events every Monday morning!

Ever have one of those weeks were everything seems to work despite the world around you? It’s a little disconcerting. It’s been far from a perfect week, but I’ve been able to get all my homework done, reclaim my lawns, and I even found some time to play some computer games with friends. School starts a week from today for my daughter. I can’t tell if that’s going to make things crazier or easier. It should allow me some freedom to check out some of these mid-week events I keep posting. I’m looking forward to it.